Full-Stack Software Engineer, Child Safety Tools & Systems
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will build data-intensive, AI-powered applications and infrastructure that help operators and investigators work effectively and responsibly on child safety. You will prototype and maintain intelligence systems, develop across the stack, work with cross-functional partners, and report on impact. The role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience as a software engineer
- Strong software engineering foundation with end-to-end ownership
- Experience with large-scale data pipelines or search/retrieval systems
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript
- Familiarity with Spark, Kafka, Flink, data warehouses and SQL
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Understanding the role involves exposure to sensitive and egregious content
Responsibilities
- Prototype, build, and maintain intelligence systems that detect, triage and enable human review of high severity harm
- Design and deliver systems with operators and investigators
- Develop across the stack: UIs, services and pipelines
- Collaborate with Product Policy, Platform Integrity, Safety Systems and Research
- Contribute to technical strategy for child safety tools
- Report on impact in a data-driven fashion
Benefits
- Equity
- Performance-related bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave
- Paid medical and caregiver leave
- Flexible PTO
- 13+ paid company holidays
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid life and disability coverage
- Learning and development stipend
- Daily meals in offices
- Relocation assistance
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends